Lang
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We decided to accept the following RFCs this week:
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RFC 1494: Amend RFC
550 with misc. follow set corrections
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RFC 1444: Untagged unions
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RFC 1513: Stabilize
implementing panics as aborts
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RFC 1398: Allocators, take III
We also placed the following RFCs into FCP:
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RFC 1429: feature
gate extern fn methods
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RFC 1440: allow drop
types in statics/constants
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RFC 1399: add
#[repr(pack = N)]
– nmatsakis
Libs
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This week marked the conclusion of the 1.9 release cycle final comment period
(FCP). The libs team discussed the stabilization decisions for all issues,
coming to the following conclusions:
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FCP Issue #27719:
Tracking issue for
recover stabilization
- Stabilize with the names
catch_unwind, resume_unwind,
AssertUnwindSafe, and UnwindSafe.
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FCP Issue #27751:
Tracking issue for
raw stabilization
- Deprecate the
Slice type and the Repr trait
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FCP Issue #27754:
Tracking issue for
str_char stabilization
- Stabilize the
is_char_boundary method, deprecate char_range_at,
char_range_at_reverse, char_at, char_at_reverse, and
slice_shift_char.
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FCP Issue #27780:
Tracking issue for
<*mut T, *const T>::{as_ref, as_mut_ref}
- Stabilize both methods with by-value
self instead of by-reference
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FCP Issue #27784:
Tracking issue for char encoding methods
- Postpone stabilization of
encode_utf8 pending investigation into the
performance of the two methods.
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FCP Issue #27809:
Tracking issue for
make_ascii_{upper,lower}case
- Stabilize both methods as-is
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FCP Issue #27811:
Tracking issue for
CommandExt::session_leader
- Deprecate in favor of
CommandExt::befor_exec
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FCP Issue #27830:
Tracking issue for UTF-16 decoding iterators
- Stabilize functions as-is with a tweak to the error type in the iterator.
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FCP Issue #28050:
Set recovery methods
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FCP Issue #29453:
Add Capacity/length methods for OsString
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FCP Issue #29791:
Tracking issue for getting
pthread_t from JoinHandle
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FCP Issue #29935:
Tracking issue for
#[deprecated]
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FCP Issue #30014:
Tracking issue for OpenOptions expansion
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FCP Issue #30752:
Tracking issue for
panic::propagate
- Stabilize with the name
resume_unwind
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FCP Issue #31262:
HashMap and HashSet should provide a getter for their hashers
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FCP Issue #31398:
Tracking issue for
CommandExt::{exec, before_exec}
- Stabilize the
exec function
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FCP Issue #31405:
Tracking issue for
file_try_clone
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FCP Issue #31572:
Tracking issue for SocketAddr setters
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FCP Issue #31755:
Tracking issue for
<[T]>::copy_from_slice
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FCP Issue #31756:
Tracking issue for
ptr::{read,write}_volatile
More information about the relevant decision can be found on the issue and final
comment as well. Stabilizations have all been applied in rust-lang/rust#32804
Tools
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rustup, the successor to multirust, is now available for beta
testing. Please feel free to leave feedback on the internals
thread!
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Nightlies for the i586-pc-windows-msvc target are now being produced.
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Nightly for the aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu target are now being
produced.
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Top level overrides in Cargo have landed, allowing you to specify
package overrides in Cargo.toml to work with other collaborators.
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The following RFCs have been moved into their final comment period to be
decided upon ~2 weeks from now:
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RFC 1510 - Adding a new
rdylib crate type. Note that we are specifically
interested in hearing about dylib use cases today to see if changing its
definition will cause breakage.
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RFC 1525 - Adding workspaces to Cargo
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RFC 1535 - Stabilizing
-C overflow-checks as a flag
Compiler
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Quiet week.
– nmatsakis
